Ukraines counteroffensive and sobering new assessment. And now it is time to set the rule of the road as they head to the trial, and trumps team is saying that the prosecutors are going after his First Amendment rights now. And 40 Million People are under severe threats today after the extreme storms have battered the United States over night. Im omar jimenez with kate bolduan and john berman. This is cnn news central. We have brandnew reporting this morning on ukraines counteroffensive in russia. Weeks into the fight, the reports from the battlefield are increasingly sobering. Specifically, concerns of the ability to retake specific territory. The National Security correspondent and the awardwinning author jim sciutto broke this reporting, and now he heard the reporting, and this is a marked change in weeks to folks in the u. S. And europe and the military and diplomacy and also lawmakers and there is a consistent read of the intelligence assessments here, and that is the counter offe
A new deadline in the federal prosecution of former President Trump expires in hours, and this as intrigue in georgia grows. A new subpoena is on the table as the grand jury weighs whether or not theyll charge trump. A cnn exclusive. A new report shows that ukraine is not makieing extensive progrs against russia. A sobering new report in this morning. And now, warrants issued after a brawl in alabama. A group of white boaters accused of jumping a black boater. With john berman and omar jimenez, this is cnn news cent central. We are following a lot of new developments following donald trump. The grand jury that handed up the indictment against him are back at it meeting in washington, d. C. , in the federal courthouse, and this as Special Counsel jack smith and the Trump Legal Team have a 3 00 p. M. Deadline following the election of the subversion case, and this is as the trumps team wants looser rules about what evidence he can share publicly before the trial. And trump says that the
we were not expecting a hearing until august 28th, but it is going to happen by the end of the week, and submissions are due by the end of today at 3:00 p.m. and a new trump ally has gone to speak to the special counsel, and talking about bernie keric who has ties to rudy giuliani. yes, they met with the special counsel s team for five hours yesterday. and keric the former new york city commissioner and he worked with rudy giuliani after the 2020 election, and he has a lot of knowledge about rudy giuliani s efforts to find fraud in election and it is critical, because he is named as co-conspirator in the election, and uncharged in the indictment. it is clearly showing that the investigation continues, and more people including rudy giuliani could get charged, and of course, we are seeing the
friday. all of this is coming as cnn has learned that this man, trump ally, bernie keric has met with jack smith s team, and the former new york commissioner is a long time ally with rudy giuliani and coordinated with him post election, and we have jessica schneider on this, and pick where you want to start, but what should we expect of this deadline today. yes, omar, the judge here, she has been aggressive and she wants to settle the issues over this proposed protective order, and she does want this hearing by the end of the week, and what she is telling trump s team, and counsel is that they need to submit their availability before that hearing by 3:00 today, and we have seen the back and forth in court filings around donald trump s team is trying to subvert his first amendment rights by in this protective order restricting what he can
if the prosecutors are working on more documents, they have more new documents, because in the last few hours they have received thousands of documents from the legal team head by rudy giuliani to try to find alleged fraud. these documents came from former new york police commissioner bernie keric. cnn obtained many of the documents last night, and a team of us went through them, and rahel, after reviewing them, it does not appear that this is the type of the evidence that wow would have to complete a review with before speaking to former president trump. and in addition to the documents they have three witness interviews over the next three weeks. thank you, paula reid.